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    Lucerne Festival is one of the leading international festivals in the world of classical music and presents a series of classical music festivals based...
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  • The Lucerne Festival Academy is an orchestra-sized educational institution devoted exclusively to the interpretation and performance of contemporary classical...
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  • The Lucerne Festival Orchestra is a European ad hoc seasonal orchestra based at the annual Lucerne Festival in Switzerland. The Lucerne Festival had featured...
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    Lucerne is the capital of the canton of Lucerne and part of the district of the same name. With a population of approximately 82,000 people, Lucerne is...
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  • The Lucerne Festival Strings is one of Switzerland's most frequently touring chamber orchestras, which for decades was closely associated with the Lucerne...
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  • Michael Haefliger (category People from Lucerne)
    Director of the Lucerne Festival; he is also the co-founder of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Lucerne Festival Academy, and Davos Festival—Young Artists...
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    Widmann. He was composer in residence for the BBC, at the Lucerne Festival and the Salzburg Festival. He was honoured as an officer of the Ordre des Arts et...
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    music director of the Vienna State Opera, founder and director of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, founder and director of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, founding...
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    by Michael Tilson Thomas at Carnegie Hall. Wang performed with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado in Beijing, the Royal Philharmonic...
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    The Culture and Congress Centre in Lucerne (or KKL for Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Luzern) is a multi-functional building with a concert hall that is...
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  • Swiss conductor, violinist and music educator. In 1956 he founded the Lucerne Festival Strings chamber orchestra together with Wolfgang Schneiderhan. Born...
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    1953) is an Italian conductor. He is currently music director of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and of La Scala. Prior to this, he held chief conducting...
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    Ensemble InterContemporain at the Lucerne Festival Academy from 2009 to 2013. During his time at the Lucerne Festival Academy he also assisted such conductors...
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    held annually are the Paléo Festival, Lucerne Festival, the Montreux Jazz Festival, the Locarno International Film Festival and Art Basel. Alpine symbolism...
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    The Lucerne Cheese Festival (German: Käsefest Luzern) is a cheese festival held annually in Lucerne, Switzerland. It was established in 2001 and is normally...
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    Richard Wagner Museum is a cultural site in Lucerne, Switzerland, situated on the shore of Lake Lucerne in the district of Tribschen. The composer Richard...
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    music in the Parc de la Villette in Paris and, in Switzerland, the Lucerne Festival Academy, an international orchestra of young musicians, with which...
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    Lucerne and Verbier both feature prestigious international classical music festivals in the summer: the Lucerne Festival and the Verbier Festival. Other...
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  • 4:28 16. "Cello Concerto in E minor (third movement)" Antonio Vivaldi Lucerne Festival Strings/Pierre Fournier/Rudolf Baumgartner 3:49 17. "Adagio from Concerto...
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  • residencies in Ferrara (Ferrara Musica, founder: Claudio Abbado) and Lucerne (Lucerne Festival). The first concert and founding residency of the MCO began on...
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  • Bendigo Easter Festival, Australia Easter Festival, part of the Lucerne Festival, Switzerland Osterfestspiele, part of a series of festivals in Baden-Baden...
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    The Verbier Festival is an annual international music festival that takes place for two weeks in late July and early August in the mountain resort of Verbier...
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  • the Lucerne Festival), Rigoletto, Rake's Progress (for the Lucerne Festival), Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Die Dreigroschenoper (for the Lucerne Festival),...
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    the Lucerne Festival and premiered on 27 August 2022 at the Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Luzern (KKL) by Anne-Sophie Mutter and the Lucerne Festival Contemporary...
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  • Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado from 1993 to 1999, and later at the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Blacher performed as a soloist with orchestras such as Berlin...
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  • Music charts Swiss Hitparade Music festivals Lucerne Festival Montreux Jazz Festival Nox Illuminata Verbier Festival Music media MTV (Swiss TV channel)...
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  • Lucerne Festival Orchestra Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre (KKL Luzern) The orchestra is a separate organisation from the ad hoc annual Lucerne Festival...
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    The White Nights Festival is an annual summer festival in Saint Petersburg celebrating its midnight twilight phenomena due to its location near the Arctic...
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    1976 at the Lucerne Festival, where she played Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major. In 1977, she performed at the Salzburg Festival and with the...
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    The Edinburgh International Festival is an annual arts festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, spread over the final three weeks in August. Notable figures from...
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